We watched Jane Champion’s The Power of The Dog on Netflix last night. Wow! What a wonderful film - the acting, art direction, the story and how it was told. I highly recommend seeing it. 🍿

Wet weather fun in Maui.

Storms are forecast to hit the Hawaiian islands this weekend. The first rains are falling on the north shore of Maui right now.

Finished reading: Elevation by Stephen King 📚

A double rainbow crossed the sky this morning while I was on the phone to my mother. 🌈

The power went down at 1:15pm this afternoon. The internet went down with it. We live in an area with poor cell reception and make heavy use of WiFi calling. So phone calls were difficult, I received one, and internet was possible if I sat on a certain chair outside and used a weak cellular signal. This evening I discovered that with the doors open, to cool the house down after a warm evening, that same cellular signal was accessible sat inside by the open doors. Twitter was my access to Hawaiian Electric’s occasional updates.

It is now 8:18pm and the power has just come back on - 7 hours later. It makes me realize how fragile the systems are that we live by, and I am grateful to those who maintain them.

My head has been pounding for most of the afternoon. Rain has been threatening but only falling as gentle showers when it does drop. Now it’s pouring and almost on cue I feel my headache receding. The air pressure builds, my head hurts. The pressure diminishes, my head relaxes.

Colours at dusk.

Thanksgiving 2021. 😄…there was much good company, food and chatter in between.

Before

After

With darkness all around, I sat outside on the lanai sharpening knives for carving duties tomorrow at dinner, while watching the distant flashing lights of airplanes on their initial climb out of Kahului airport.

Sitting in front of Apple Music creating a playlist for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.🎵

I don’t use Calcbot often for unit conversations, but when I do I’m pleased that I have it at hand.

My wife and I sat and rewatched My Neighbor Totoro last night with our grandsons. It is such a wonderful animated film. Something for the child in all of us, and bringing to life the hidden world around us. 🍿

I just discovered that Workspaces in Drafts can be filtered by date. Here is a Workspace that will pull out all drafts created today. Another level of expandability is stumbled upon.

Sitting alone
Incense burning
The rain falls outside

I have found the way to assure that we will wake up to rain, despite the forecast, after a long dry spell. Spend the day before doing copious amounts of saturation watering. It works a charm. Overcast and wet this morning. 🌧

When I was growing up all the kids books showed cockerels calling out as the sun rose, heralding in a new day. What rubbish! It’s 10:30pm, I’m just going to bed, and a cockerel is “cock-a-doodle-doo’ing” to his heart’s content. 🐓

Now that’s a Sunday. An unexpected brunch with some friends returning to the island, an early afternoon sleep, watched the first episode of the Foundation series on Apple TV+ (I’m not sure what I thought of that yet?), and now to do some work outside.

The Spanish Dagger Yucca (those leaves are pointed and sharp) is flowering.

I was hoping that there would be a way to bring one off interviews that I have as mp3 files into Apple Podcasts app. That way I could keep them together and know where to go when I want to listen to them…but it does not look as though it is possible. 😞